That's awesome. I cannot tell from the first photo because it is so black, but do you have some kind of square plates on top? If so, can you give a link to them?

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Funny I was just watching a video you made on YT comparing Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut and some other pastes. Good stuff, I really enjoyed it and I'm planning on finally trying one of these liquid metal pastes.

Anyway, back on topic: I got some aluminum mesh fan filters but found them to be way too obstructive in terms of air flow. I ended up removing the aluminum mesh screen and using the metal brackets to cover the imperfections in the cutout I made of the panel. I'm going to be ordering some sponge filters or is there something else you recommend which filters out dust but doesn't block too much air.

Funny I was just watching a video you made on YT comparing Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut and some other pastes. Good stuff, I really enjoyed it and I'm planning on finally trying one of these liquid metal pastes.

Anyway, back on topic: I got some aluminum mesh fan filters but found them to be way too obstructive in terms of air flow. I ended up removing the aluminum mesh screen and using the metal brackets to cover the imperfections in the cutout I made of the panel. I'm going to be ordering some sponge filters or is there something else you recommend which filters out dust but doesn't block too much air.

Edit: I got filters like these:
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I'm using conductonaut on my CPU, it only reachs sub 70 on fulload with the environmental temp of >30 degree but I don't know why my CPU gets too hot on idle (about over 60 degree and even 70 degree) with default fan profile

Did some tests with the further modded U3. I first did some tests with the 920xm at stock clocks but the difference with the cooler working was only about 5C per core so it's not that significant. Overclocked though is another story:

Without the cooler, the system reached tjunction max after less than a minute, and with the cooler the max temps were high but steady with the modded bottom tray and very acceptable with the bottom tray removed.

I am debating about applying this stuff on the GPU. As it is now I am happy with Gelid GC Extreme on my GPU. Temps don't get past the mid to high 70s after hours of gaming and always idles around 29C. That's with an overclocked and overvolted m6000. The 920xm overclocked really benefits from liquid metal paste though.

Temps started going crazy lately on the CPU side. With 10-20% CPU usage, my 920xm was reaching the mid to high 70s on stock clocks. Decided to open her up and check the paste. It had hardened almost entirely. There were a couple of tiny wet globs here and there on the die and heatsink, but the rest was completely hardened. When this stuff hardens, it doesn't want to come off too. I tried Naptha, Alcohol and even Acetone and it would not come off the heatsink. Long story short, I had to wet-sand my heatsink with 800 grit sandpaper to remove the paste and the stain it leaves on the copper.

Back on Gelid for now. I heard this stuff hardens after a while but I first installed it in May, and was traveling during the summer for 5 weeks so in reality it was only used for around 2 months.

Temps started going crazy lately on the CPU side. With 10-20% CPU usage, my 920xm was reaching the mid to high 70s on stock clocks. Decided to open her up and check the paste. It had hardened almost entirely. There were a couple of tiny wet globs here and there on the die and heatsink, but the rest was completely hardened. When this stuff hardens, it doesn't want to come off too. I tried Naptha, Alcohol and even Acetone and it would not come off the heatsink. Long story short, I had to wet-sand my heatsink with 800 grit sandpaper to remove the paste and the stain it leaves on the copper.

Back on Gelid for now. I heard this stuff hardens after a while but I first installed it in May, and was traveling during the summer for 5 weeks so in reality it was only used for around 2 months.